In my attempt to reduce my stash, I may have been a little successful since I spoke with you last, because at least I haven't bought any new fabric!! Progress has been made on a number of projects, and I even dug out some (very) old UFO's and did a little on them. I had to pinch myself a little at this point. Hahaha.
Section three has two blocks up on the design wall and the other two have be stitch into rows and just need making into the 2 remaining blocks.
That will just leave the fifth and final section to be done. Woohoo as they say, sounds like it's almost getting there. Must not speak too soon just in case. LOL.
I'm trying to do some each day, but it can be a bit of a struggle some days. All in good time. The next three photos are of some eye candy from the Tuesday Girls who have been very busy of late.
This is Lorrie's lovely Christmas Redwork wall hanging. It is really pretty.
Lorraine is doing a Boston Commons using hexagons. These are quite large hexagons for Lorraine. Often she is working with little tiny things that can barely be held in one's hand. Mad, I think, LOL. It's certainly going to be a beautiful quilt. The fabrics are all French General scraps that Lorraine was gifted.
Not sure if I have already mentioned this quilt before but this is Lynn's Pies and Tarts quilt that looks fabulous. It was interesting choosing the correct binding colour and I found a delicious rusty red in my stash that was perfect.
I have gifted my pile of completed pies and tarts and the cut out pieces and fabric etc to a quilter who needed it a lot more than I did. I had to take a look at how important this quilt was to me in relation to my health issues and decided I did not want to continue with it. Feeling really happy with that decision, and it has allowed me to continue on with other projects that need to be finished.
This is the first two blocks in the mystery quilt I am doing with Quilters Lane in Masterton. I chose the Dear Stella colour way as a change for me and just love it so far. The bestest thing though is it comes already cut. I just have to sit and stitch it up together. But guess what... I still only just got them done before the next blocks arrived. What.... that's just sad, hahaha. Mind you, I had to pull out a few rusty old drawers in the filing cabinet of my brain to remember how to get these stitched up properly. (whispering - I had to unpick a LOT...lol) To change the subject....
This little quilt appeared in post here a while back and a couple of friends had suggested I make it bigger. I'm never too sure what to do with little quilts, and the fabrics were not suitable to donate it as a baby quilt. So I have added on a small frame and another floral border so far. Have another floral border but with different flowers cut from the same striped fabric so will put in another lighter frame and put that one on too I think. Then I will have to decide what to do with it from there as it will probably end up neither one thing or the other. Might have to ask if anyone would like it and send it off somewhere to live happily ever after!!
So that's about it here for now, thanks a heap for popping in and reading about my crazy life. My health has been great the past two to three weeks and New Zealand has been sitting under this ginormous high and the air pressure has been so good for me. Now it's back to reality as this dratted little low came by and moved it out the road. Okay, I know we all needed the rain, but gosh it was fun while it lasted. Ignoring the fact that winter is definitely coming with the cooler autumn nights and mornings we are now having and realising the other side of the world is very happy about that. Oh well. See you again soon.
Hugs and blessings
Clare
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Wow Clare. It looks like you have been busy!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up all your lovely projects with Oh Scrap!